I shall assume that your silence gives consent. - Plato Your silence gives consent. - Plato In your palms, I've placed my life, my secrets. I give you freedom to leave me at any time. I'm not easy to love. No one ever has. All I ask is that you always keep your silence, if not for me, then for the families of the others you'd destroy. (Nykyrian) - Sherrilyn Kenyon I like your silence, it the more shows off your wonder. - William Shakespeare Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart. - Sri Chinmoy Realize this your anger with God does not drive a wedge between you and Him. It is your silence that drives the wedge. - Prodigal Life - Pauline Creeden O dear Himalaya...why are you so amazing, can I kiss your peak or can I just let your silence speak...O dear Himalaya.. - Santosh Kalwar He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. - Elbert Hubbard T...

I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment. - John Green I did something so stupid last night that I can't even speak about it today. I took a vow of silence. - Jarod Kintz

I won't discuss non-discussable things with you, like the sound of silence and the vertical dimensions of an awkward moment. - Jarod Kintz I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel. - Charles Kennedy Listen to the sound of silence. - Paul Simon

I did feel a 'something', like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation. - Ben Aaronovitch Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else. - Peter Ackroyd I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive. - J R R Tolkien Sometimes I thought of Him as a cloud in the sky;... sometimes as simply an enormous white light. Whatever the image, I would imagine Him close to me. And then I would wait, listening to my breath, until the silence came. And I would mutter: I give myself to You. - Ayad Akhtar ...it wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself. - Paulo Coelho She wasn't a ...

The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible. - Thomas Harris But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs. - Thomas Harris After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon. - Dino De Laurentiis

I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly. - Alexandra Adornetto Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena - Paulo Coelho This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence. - Neil Gaiman Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence. - Neil Gaiman Just because others have it worse doesn't mean you have to suffer in silence. - Jonathan Kellerman A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free. - George Sand Great souls suffer in silence. - Friedrich Schiller

I won't discuss non-discussable things with you, like the sound of silence and the vertical dimensions of an awkward moment. - Jarod Kintz I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel. - Charles Kennedy Listen to the sound of silence. - Paul Simon

That was surely the purest kind of kything. Mr. Jenkins had never had that kind of communion with another human being, a communion so rich and full that silence speaks more powerfully than words. - Madeleine L Engle Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all. - Tanya Huff

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights. - Brittany Daniel When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money! - Jonathan Demme And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. - Jonathan Franzen The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible. - Thomas Harris But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs. - Thomas Harris After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon. - Dino De Laurentiis I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. ...

Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk - Amit Abraham Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings. - Nema Al Araby Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. - Mitch Albom He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.' - Mitch Albom Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken. - Mitch Albom A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. - Muhammad Ali In some causes silence is dangerous. - Saint Ambrose Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. - Quintus Tullius Cicero Silence is more eloquent than words. - Thomas Carlyle Silence is ...

Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk - Amit Abraham Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. - Muhammad Ali I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-" "I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said. - Loretta Chase Silence is golden, and gold is up these days, so silence is a solid investment. - Jarod Kintz

When I sit in my silence and look at my mind, it is only questions of longing and control that emerge to agitate me, and this agitation is what keeps me from evolving forward. - Elizabeth Gilbert Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't hear it. - David Levithan dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it. - David Levithan In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence - Bei Dao I have decided to leave Clea's last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resoluti...

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective. - Mother Teresa We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. - Mother Teresa

Come on, Ella. Sleep green.' Ignoring him, I got into bed wearing a T-shirt and boxer shorts printed with penguins. I reached over to the nightstand and flipped off the lamp. A moment of silence, and then I heard a lecherous murmur. 'I like your penguins. - Lisa Kleypas When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence. Leo looked at Cam expectantly. "Well?" "Well what?" "Now is the time when you dredge up one of your blasted Romany sayings. Something about roosters laying eggs, or pigs dancing in the orchard. It's what you always do. Let's have it." Cam gave him a sardonic glance. "I can't think of one right now." "By God, I've had to listen to hundreds of them. And Phelan doesn't have to hear even one? - Lisa Kleypas Anybody else think that was weird?" Shane asked as they got into the car. Eve sent him an exasperated glance; the three of them were, of course, in the backseat. Amelie had the front, ...

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love. - Saint Augustine Of Hippo Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps. - Samuel Beckett To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes. - Ray Bradbury Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. - Epictetus I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. - C S Lewis

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength. - Paul Brunton During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and being one with the wind is like listening to the celestial music. - Swami Dhyan Giten

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute. - Adele I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly. - Alexandra Adornetto Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me. - Anna Akhmatova Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena - Paulo Coelho Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life. - Paulo Coelho We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her. - Jodi Picoult ...